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Barbarians at the gate
“You are turning over to the censors of the world a censor-friendly architecture of the Internet. And it doesn't take a great leap of the imagination to understand what the Singapore government, the Chinese government or even the U.S. government will want to do with the system that allows whole domains to be blocked out, or whole nations to be blocked out. ”
-- Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union, on PICSRules, a technology that can choose between a variety of rating systems and filtering software being developed for the Internet. From "New Rules on Internet Content Fuel the Battle Over Filters," in the New York Times' Cybertimes.
SALON | Jan. 6, 1998

T A B L E+T A L K Jesse Helms, Oprah Winfrey, Spice Girls and other reader choices for scumbags of the year. In Headlines. T O D A Y When Mr. Bono went to Washington - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Browse the Newsreal Archives - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` Barbarians at the gate “You are turning over to the censors of the world a censor-friendly architecture of the Internet. And it doesn't take a great leap of the imagination to understand what the Singapore government, the Chinese government or even the U.S. government will want to do with the system that allows whole domains to be blocked out, or whole nations to be blocked out. ” -- Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union, on PICSRules, a technology that can choose between a variety of rating systems and filtering software being developed for the Internet. From "New Rules on Internet Content Fuel the Battle Over Filters," in the New York Times' Cybertimes. SALON \| Jan. 6, 1998